File Encryption Methods
The cluster focuses on discussions about techniques, tools, and best practices for encrypting files and archives, including password-protected zips, encfs, AxCrypt, metadata concerns, and secure sharing methods.
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Why's that, given that files are encrypted?
Store your archive encrypted, and then later you can decide if you share the password or not :)
if you've got to communicate the decryption key separately anyway, might as well just use password protected zip files, no?
Encrypt it. There are lots of open source programs that can do that for you. Even if they get a hold of the files they will be meaningless without your private key.
Doesn't that only encrypt the data, leaking stuff like filenames, or has that been mitigated?
What are you using to encrypt/decrypt files?
why do you want to save a file unencrypted on your filesystem, when encryption is available?
Could zipping the file with a password work as an encryption?
Why would you need to? The data is encrypted by the password.
That file is often encrypted with a password, so it's not that trivial.